RespConsiderate wrote:Goodbye. If Weld County leaves the neighborhood improves. Will be good for the economy too because Weld can go buy all of its own equipment to move snow, maintain and improve infrastructure, etc. Weld can also hire a ton of new government employees to manage. Don't even care if the door hits them where the good Lord split them. GDBYE people of Weld whose parents were siblings.

I guess you conveniently forgot the part about 70% of Colorado's tax revenue comes from those counties due to oil and gas revenues. It would be Denver that couldn't by a snow shovel, not the other way around.

Don't waste time arguing with the liberals. They already know what is the best way for us to live our lives. And we'll be glad for the door hit them in the butt too. They are only interested in the money from the rural counties to fund their agenda. Before anyone gets too excited, let's find out if it is possible. You can be sure that the Democratic controlled Sumpremes will try to squish, if they get the chance. The one thing the Dems don't want is for the citizens of these Counties to get to vote on this.

Not surprising that the DP ran for a way left liberal ex-professor to provide the comments. Heck, we in Weld County haven't paid any attention to that overpaid hack for years.

R8R_H8R wrote:It's a Scientific FACT:MRI scans prove: 'Conservatives brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for FEAR and other primitive emotions. At the same time, conservatives brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate the part of the brain responsible for Courage and optimism.This gives us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals.

Democrats tend to think through challenging circumstances before responding, while Republicans are more prone to react impulsively and emotionally to outside influences.

SOURCE: Study: Conservatives have larger fear center in brainANDRepublicans: different brains, different tactics

I imagine very few, at least in the reality-based community, are surprised by this. Conservatives who have safely sequestered themselves away from any contradictory opinions by exclusively consuming such media as Faux "News" aren't likely to hear it, and if they are, are likely to reject it.

I suspect that, deep down, they know it, too, though, and it's why they use the defense mechanism of projection by loudly proclaiming it is liberals who are emotional. Most hilariously, they will do this while in the same context, whine about/reject science.

McWin22 wrote:Perfect. Remove rural Colorado from the liberal ant pile along the front range and it will starve to death. They want to pass laws that may apply in Denver and Aurora and force it on the rest of the state. Rural Colorado has had enough of the urban mess shoved down their throat.

You live in Denver according to your zip code, are you moving to Weld county?

Better check your zip codes again partner. I have lived in rural Elbert and Weld counties for the last 25 years. Grew up in Denver and Littleton and have no desire to live in the metro area.

However, the notion could draw the backing of well-heeled conservative backers, he said. "The Koch brothers could come in along with some other wingnut groups."

LOL. You can bet that the Brothers Koch would get involved, if they aren't already.

And people in the "tea party" wonder why most people think they are crackpots. Seceding from the union, seceding from states - and all because they have a temper tantrum when they don't get their way.

Since Bloomberg and Sores have already bought and paid for the front range liberals it would only be fitting for some conservative money to back independence from big brothers intrusions. You and your ilk are just happy to sit back and let everybody else do the thinking for you. Some of us are not.

RespConsiderate wrote:Goodbye. If Weld County leaves the neighborhood improves. Will be good for the economy too because Weld can go buy all of its own equipment to move snow, maintain and improve infrastructure, etc. Weld can also hire a ton of new government employees to manage. Don't even care if the door hits them where the good Lord split them. GDBYE people of Weld whose parents were siblings.

I guess you conveniently forgot the part about 70% of Colorado's tax revenue comes from those counties due to oil and gas revenues. It would be Denver that couldn't by a snow shovel, not the other way around.

“Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

...what are you going to do when all the "rough men" are gone?...hit the miscreants with your purse?...

McWin22 wrote:Perfect. Remove rural Colorado from the liberal ant pile along the front range and it will starve to death. They want to pass laws that may apply in Denver and Aurora and force it on the rest of the state. Rural Colorado has had enough of the urban mess shoved down their throat.

Yeah, because everyone just depends on food grown in rural Colorado. The breadbasket of America it is.

Let's see how they do raising a tax base for trivial things like roads, health care, etc....

Yep, it's fascinating how anti-tax some folks can be. Except when it comes to the things that they immediately see as benefiting them....

It's fascinating listening to "any concern about government spending/direction of tax dollars=anti-tax" strawmen concocted by lefties who can't engage in an actual discussion of logic and ideas. Brought to you by the party of dirty water, dirty air, and grandmas pushed over cliffs.

Commissioner Sean Conway told the Tribune oil and gas and agriculture in particular are being targeted, even though the revenue the county sees from the those industries makes up 70 percent of the state's budget. He said those dollars don't return to northeastern Colorado, for road improvements for example.

Bull.

The state 2012-13 Budget sez that severance taxes alone account for less than 5% of the budget revenues.

R8R_H8R wrote:It's a Scientific FACT:MRI scans prove: 'Conservatives brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for FEAR and other primitive emotions. At the same time, conservatives brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate the part of the brain responsible for Courage and optimism.This gives us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism, for example, than liberals.

Democrats tend to think through challenging circumstances before responding, while Republicans are more prone to react impulsively and emotionally to outside influences.

SOURCE: Study: Conservatives have larger fear center in brainANDRepublicans: different brains, different tactics

Thanks for the post. I have noticed that every conservative I know is neurotically frightened of everything from the government to Mosquitos. I used to wonder if they were afraid of everything because they are conservative, or if they became conservative because they are afraid of everything. This answers the question.

Why not just leave it up to us voters and see if it is not overwellingly approved and the voters have a mandate or not. Then let us go, the southern portion of the state doesn't want our values, and we are not going to comply with those stupid gun laws anyway.

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